Navigational & Marine Engineering School - Certificates , 1918 - 1931

Includes materials related to SCI’s Merchant Marine School and its predecessors, the Navigational and Marine Engineering School and the Navigational School. Of particular note are registrar materials, correspondence related to the J. Hooker Hamersley and correspondence from the War years of the Navigational and Marine Engineering School, including a letter addressed to Rev. Archibald R. Mansfield from then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, thanking SCI for providing free training to aspiring officers. Also included are correspondence, reports and course catalogs related to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Institute of Maritime and General Studies, which operated out of SCI’s headquarters at 15 State Street.